GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan prosecutors were investigating
Wednesday whether a reputed Mexican drug lord was among the 11
people killed in a recent shootout.

Guatemalan news media, citing unidentified police sources, have
reported that Joaquin Guzman -- the reputed head of the Sinaloa
cartel -- was killed in Tuesday's gunbattle outside a water park in
Teculutan, a drug-trafficking stronghold in northeastern
Guatemala.

Eight people were killed at the scene of the shootout, and three
others died later.

Drug prosecutor Geovanny Castro told a news conference that
officials do not have any evidence that Guzman was killed, but they
also can't rule out the idea because three of the victims have yet
to be identified. Castro said samples have been taken from the
bodies to perform DNA tests.

In Mexico, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said officials
were working with their Guatemalan counterparts to confirm whether
any of the victims were even Mexican.

"Whether a Mexican drug lord was among those detained or killed
is just speculation," he said.

Guatemalan police detained three Mexicans and three Guatemalans
after the shootout.

Guzman was arrested in 1993 in Guatemala. He escaped from a
Mexican jail in 2001 by hiding in a laundry cart.

He is now one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords and is believed
to lead the powerful Sinaloa cartel.